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BalletMet Columbus succumbs to temptation this weekend with its world premiere of
7 Deadly Sins, which opened last night at the Riffe Center's Capitol Theatre.

In this substantial new ballet, sin can be fun, funny, disturbing or physically painful. You
might want to look away at times during the two-hour-plus performance, but you can't. Desire
manipulates the senses -- and by extension, sentient beings -- and when your guard is down, watch
out.

The company gets plenty of help from Shadowbox Live's rock ensemble, performing everything from
Beethoven and Liszt to an impersonation of Jimmy Swaggert.

Six choreographers created these original sins:
Pride by Ma Cong;
Sloth and
Gluttony by James Kudelka;
Lust by Gina Patterson;
Wrath by Darrell Grand Moultrie;
Greed by Jimmy Orrante; and
Envy by Amy Seiwert. Such diversity provides the overall work with a huge range in
movement styles but a strong focus to the individual "sins."

Each section packed its own punch, in the case of
Wrath, quite literally. Here, the dancers gave themselves over to primal screams and
pounding fists to the point one got a little worried about them.

The most-humorous moments came in
Sloth and
Gluttony. In the first, dancer Adrienne Benz (casts alternate) is so tired she needs help
getting up and out of bed, but has a sturdy team of supporters to carry her about between
yawns.

Gluttony takes the cake -- and the bread, the soup and bowl upon bowl of foodstuffs. It's
so over the top it might give you indigestion.

BalletMet Columbus and Shadowbox Live will present7 Deadly Sins through May 7 at the Capitol Theatre, 77 S. High St. Times and ticket
prices: 614-229-4848;
www.balletmet.org; 6
14-469-0939; Ticketmaster outlets (1-800-745-3000,www.ticketmaster.com)